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youngmafbog | 12:09 Mon 02nd Sep 2013 | News
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But excellent news for the rest of us.

Looks like we are finally seeing some turn. Given that Labour seemed to have positioned themselves on the poor economy ticket (despite having caused it in the first place), what will they do now given this sort of news ?


http://news.sky.com/story/1136080/factories-in-britain-booming-again
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seems to be greatest growth rather than greatest output. The smaller the base you start from the easier it is to have "strong" growth.
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don't think the workers at airbus broughton will agree one whole section has been put on days from today and a lot of others will be put on less hours
Well, a growth in the economy is the only thing that will effect the next General Election.............which is nearly 2 years away. if the growth continues, then it will be bad news for Milliband and Balls, but if it is not sustained, then it will be good news for them.

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//factories always did boom till you know who had them closed. //

You mean booming factories like British Leyland?

Well Dr Filth, the liberal left on this site should be pleased at that; less air travel and less wrecking the planet as they claim.
Good lord...
It's not a claim that we're wrecking the planet, it's a fact -- but, that aside, I can't possibly agree with Dr Filth's not-so-subtle dig at Thatcher. The main reason factories struggled in this country for so long was a combination of outdated technology and practices and Union Militancy.
jim i never mentioned maggie
Any sign that the economy is showing a sustained recovery - rather than a transient blip = is to be welcomed.

What we can never know is whether the economy would have shown signs of a sustained recovery earlier, had we followed a slightly different course, one of targeted austerity.

What we currently have is a fragile recovery, an effective downgrade of standard of living for many within the country, wages still lagging behind inflation, the suspicion that many of the "jobs" that have been created are part time, zero hour contract based, or paid barely above minimum wage, an economy still too heavily reliant upon the housing/building sector and consumer spending and borrowing,and swingeing cuts in infrastructure projects that may have led us out of recession and into growth sooner.

Not at all sure there is too much to celebrate just yet...
maybe not enough to celebrate but anything that puts ed ball's nose out of joint is fine by me.
The main reason factories struggled in this country for so long was a combination of outdated technology and practices and Union Militancy

You don't mention management incompetence? Like (to cite British Leyland again) selling Minis at a loss?

As others have pointed out before, British workers seem to be producing good cars nowadays - just not for British managers.
interesting reading, from 2012, but still relevant, and one suspects that there are British Managers involved

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/9468981/How-Britain-won-the-global-car-war.html
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Grr... an accident of scrolling, sorry Mrfilth. Saw your name next to the comment for some strange reason.

jno -- I'd say that management incompetence was covering, albeit vaguely, by "outdated practices".
Jaguar is Indian-owned. Minis are German-owned. MGs are Chinese-owned. Aston-Martin are mostly Italian (I think) after a period of Kuwaiti ownership. VW make Bentleys.

However, I think Bristols are still British

http://www.bristolcars.co.uk/
jim360 - erm, okay, but you only singled out the workers as the bad guys. So did all the media and politicians at the time, of course, but it wasn't so.
"Jaguar is Indian-owned. Minis are German-owned. MGs are Chinese-owned. Aston-Martin are mostly Italian (I think) after a period of Kuwaiti ownership. VW make Bentleys."

Why should this be a problem?
it isn't. The cars are fine. I was just suggesting that past problems may have lain with British control (now mostly gone) rather than with British workpersons (still going strong and making nice cars).
not only that, mikey, people are inquiring why Dave's been letting people sell nerve-gas chemicals to Syria

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/revealed-britain-sold-nerve-gas-2242520

Probably perfectly innocent, just to be used in Assad's ophthamology clinic.

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